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TomTom's Bandit camera uses sensor smarts to solve editing headaches

2015-11-08
there are many action cabs around and they all capture video just fine but sharing your adventures with other people still requires a bit of editing effort so what happens is you end up with all these clips but no one ever sees them TomTom's bandit solves this by letting the camera and a mobile app do the editing for you and all it takes is a shake inside here are GPS and motion sensors that capture your speed g-force altitude rotation and even a heart rate if you're wearing a separate Bluetooth heart rate monitor it uses this information to pick out potential highlights in your clips or you can tag highlights with this button or do it in playback on your phone give your phone a shake and it puts those highlights into a movie the clips can be moved around and adjusted once you like what you've got the camera creates your movie and it's ready to share this easy editing is the standout feature for this $400 camera but it also turns out good-looking video and has several design features that's separated from others like it's easy to use controls a splash proof body that can be made waterproof to 50 meters by swapping out the lens cap and this rotating quick release mount and there's also a GoPro mount included so that you can use it with all of their mounts and when it comes time to charge the battery or transfer your clips you just pull out the hole inside and plug it into a USB port you can read the full review on cnet.com but with the easy editing and clever design features this is a pretty strong camera to handle both capture and editing I'm Josh Goldman we've seen it and that's a quick look at the tomtom bandit
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